The Steel Guitar Forum

Larry, Well, as I said, the is particular amp had two wrong coupling caps installed, a missing transistor and two bad transistors. It took me a lot of time to understand and troubleshoot it due to: 1. I don't do a lot of solid state 2. I only work on amps occasionally so I'm rusty 3. the documentati...

Wow, sounds like you need to re-solder every single component hole or else you will have them constantly failing. Can you take a picture of that? I wonder if that was a bad solder job in the manufacturing.

I spent a fair amount of time recently repairing a Session 400 so I'm interested in these amps and their sheer vast power levels. Yes, the power amp stage has a couple legs of power transistors in parallel, so if the current path is broken on one leg, the others are still there and will drive the sp...

I have one, obviously not used in a while, but it should work fine. I would just charge what Reverb is charging, though.

Yeah in my Googling I saw many different versions -- Kevin Ryan I'm sure will help out.

Frank is a tireless evangelist of the pedal steel, an artisan, and superb player. But above all a great human being.

And oh yeah, everybody wants Franks' tone.

I can't say if that is a volume pedal pot, it's just a random pot to me, other folks may know.
It is a 500k resistance as opposed to a 1 meg, so that's different.
You can try it, nothing will blow up, see how it works.

OK, well, any 1 megohm, audio taper potentiometer that will fit will work. but you have to match the shaft diameter and style to the existing knob, and match the mounting method to the hole in the chassis, both of these to avoid modifying the chassis, and the of course overall diameter / box dimensi...

Also, from the part number, it's a 1 megohm resistance, the "A" means audio (logarithmic) taper, and the 8833 is the date code showing the pot was made in the 33rd week of 1988.

Yes, tone controls are usually potentiometers. how is it broken? Is this image correct for the innards of the unit? https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--twWJbthT--/f_auto,t_large/v1631651908/vr6q6dc67hgdmi4p9bxq.jpg In this schematic, the tone pot only has two connections: https://bb.steelguita...

Norm Hamlet is 88, he was touring regularly not long ago with piano player Mario Carboni.

That is a 200W rms amp, that is a huge amount of power, as they said, just cracked it should be loud.

Just to beat the dead horse Most "amps" actually have several stages of amplification in them - guitar amps are like this -- each stage does a certain job, like maybe amplifying just the voltage or just the current (because each circuit can really only do one thing well), or flipping the p...

Bumping this up so's people can see it

Announcing the next meetup for the Los Angeles Pedal Steel group. Sunday 11/5, 2:00pm, the Cat and Fiddle, 742 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038, phone 323 468 3800 (Note, meetup time used to be at noon but changed to 2pm so people can sleep in.) No guitars, just good food, good conversation. We...

I also recorded all the DC bias voltages for all the transistors (except the power TO-3's) and I plan on adding those to the schematic at some point as a public service. If anybody has a good way of getting these onto the PDF schematic, let me know, (I don't have a way of modifying pdf's). We can ad...

I repair amps as a hobby. I recently repaired a 1978 Peavey Session 400 amp (no cab, just the chassis). I wanted to post to record my observations. Being from Southern Cal, the home of Fender, I will say that for rock musicians around here, Peavey has never had a very stellar name for one reason or ...

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We have changed the time for the next Los Angeles area steel guitar meetup -- it will now be at 2:30pm instead of the usual noon. The location is the usual place. Sunday 7/23, 2:30pm, the Cat and Fiddle, 742 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038, phone 323 468 3800 Good food, good conversation. We g...

Reminder about our meetup, this coming Sunday, noon, July 23rd -- if you're within driving distance of Hollywood, come on by -- we've got a couple of well-known professional steelers attending, so you are welcome to come by and *bend* their ear!

I recommend putting in a whole step raise on the 7th string, usually actuated by the RKL lever -- now the 7th string acts like another "A" pedal. Also get an easy unison with the 6th string.

Don't get me wrong, it's fine playing, I guess I'm just expecting more classic in your face country licks but of course this act is not country!

Yeah, on second listen the player seems to be holding back or maybe just inexperienced? But what's cool is just the use of the pedal steel by this fairly big indie artist out of Seattle.

I think this is from the their new album coming out -- which is the best news in a while. "Bakersfield" was just incredible. I hope these guys make 50 albums like these. I'm sure they have the time!

Great question -- I love my Freeloader but if I leave it plugged it kills the battery. Thinking of modding it for a power switch.